“Come on. We’re almost there!” my friends yelled.
But my legs and arms were shaking. Every step felt like that thousands of needles were sinking into my legs. There were three blisters on each of my feet. I couldn’t take it. Besides, because my bag was full, I put all my clothes on me, which made me feel very hot. Sweat was dripping down my face. It felt like I was in the Sahara!
It was Discovery Week. Grade Eight was visiting Altai for a week. We were going up the mountain called the Devil’s Finger. And the mountain was getting steeper. Most of the people, including my friends, were already on the top, screaming, laughing and taking selfies. Suddenly, I realized that I had left my hat on the bus, so I felt even worse. I touched my head. It was warm, but I couldn’t do anything about it. Sadly, I was still struggling forward and upward.
I was making my way slowly up the mountain. Suddenly, my foot stepped on something. It was a rock. The rock slipped from under my boot and went rolling down the mountain. I lost my balance and almost fell to the ground. “Are you OK?” I heard a voice behind me. “Yeah! I'm just taking a break,” I replied. I didn’t want others to notice that I fell down. That would be embarrassing.
There were only eight people behind me by that time, so I decided to increase the pace because I didn’t want to be the last one up. There were about 10 meters to the top, but that was still a tough journey because of the winding track. I looked up.
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My best friend, Fiona, was already on the top, waving to me.
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I was one of the last ones up the mountain.
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One summer afternoon, after doing some shopping at a grocery store close to a forest reserve in Hawaii, Amanda Eller, a hiking lover, parked her car and went hiking by herself. With two bottles of water and a loaf of bread, she started a 3-mile hike.
However, it was not long after she stepped into the forest that she found she had left her phone in the car. Thinking that a 3-mile hike was a piece of cake for a trained hiker like her, Amanda did not hesitate to continue the trip and carefully left marks on the trees every 100 steps.
As she went deeper, rain fell heavily beyond expectation and the road became muddy soon. Without an umbrella, she had to hide under a big rock and waited for the downpour to stop. Half an hour later, the rain eased off but the sky darkened. Her heart began racing since she could not see the marks on the trees clearly. In the forest, Amanda wanted to go back along the way she had come but her feeling was leading her another way. She knew that she had very strong intuition (直觉) and heard the inner voice saying, If you want to live, keep going.” She chose to believe her intuition and took the only way to go.
Amanda’s mother，Julia, did not see her that night and her phone was also not answered, so she called Amanda’s close friends and asked if they had seen her. After making sure that Amanda did not return from the forest, Julia called 911 and reported her missing. Two days passed, and rescuers found nothing. Julia was sad, saying that this was the most desperate and the worst thing for a mother but she wanted to stay positive as she felt that she would be of no help to her daughter if she only thought about the worst possibilities. And local TV stations and newspapers called on people to work together to find Amanda.
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Along with rescue workers, hundreds of volunteers set out.
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A day after she was saved, Amanda was interviewed by the local reporters at the hospital.
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It was a beautiful sunny day when Martin went out into the backyard. It would have been a perfect day to play. But Martin wasn’t out there to play.
Two months before, so interested had Martin been in playing the flute ( 长 笛 ) that he asked his mother to buy him the expensive flute and promised to practice at least thirty minutes every day. But it can be difficult to concentrate on a flute when your room is full of cool stuff like a TV, video games and the Internet. So Martin’s mother sent him to the backyard to practice, where there would be no distractions ( 分 心 的 事 物 ) .
Martin sat down on the grass and brought the flute to his lips. He began doing his fingering exercises with his eyes closed. You have to close your eyes when you want to concentrate on stuff. Anyway, he played for a good forty or fifty seconds before he heard a familiar sound: “Hey, Martin.”
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw the face of his friend, his next-door neighbor, Kris, who was smiling at him from the fence.
“I just got a new movie!” he said, “Want to come over and check it out?”
Well, that was exactly what Martin wanted to do. He loved movies but he shook his head and said sorry. Kris seemed disappointed that Martin had said no. But he also understood that Martin had to practice a lot when learning a musical instrument. So he left and watched the film by himself
Martin was alone with his flute. He closed his eyes and started his fingering exercises again. But he couldn’t concentrate. He wasn’t anything like his father, a biologist. Martin had been to his lab many times. He couldn’t understand why his father could concentrate on his researches for so long a time. When he was thinking, his father came over
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His father smiled when he noticed Martin’s absent-mindedness.
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Martin felt ashamed and then he nodded, saying he hoped to be a great flute player.
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I was looking to buy a horse that could be a backyard buddy, a friend and new member of the family. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, s0 I went to the local mothly horse auction to see if I might rescue one of the horses from a potential death sentence. There are always horses there who have plenty of life left and just need someone to show up and recognize their value , see their heart, and offer them a space where they can just be a loved horse.
Toward the end of the auction, a young col (小马) was brought into the ring. It was clear he hadn’t been handled and was not in good shape. He had patches of bare skin where his hair had been whipped away. He had scars where his mouth had been tied shut with a wire. His legs were covered with cuts and sores. Nobody raised their arm to place a bid. Too small to interest the meat buyers.
The auctioneer launched the bidding at 8$00. The price came down, and down. 1 felt a mixture of disgust and anger that these people were s0 incapable of seeing the beauty and will to live in this horse. Finally, the auctioneer slowed down and said, “Okay folks, who will take this guy home for fifty bucks?”
ME, apparently! My arm shot up into the air, declaring to the entire crowd that my heart is the softest.
BANG! The gavel came down, and I now owned the colt who had no training and a terrible start in life. But in this particular moment, nothing was more important than helping set this horse on a new path in life.
I saw my new horse alone in a large paddock (围场). I walked over to the gate and sod there for a while. I just stood there, watching him. I didn’t want to own this horse, and I didn’t want to train him.
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I opened the gate and stepped into the paddock.
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Though frustrated, I didn’t give up and came up to him again.
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